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The update comes a week after Meta said it was ending fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram.
META REMAINS IN AUSTRALIA
Meta has told the Albanese government it has “no immediate plan” to end fact-checking on its platforms in Australia, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has announced.
“We are aware as a government that, starting in the US, that Meta will be ending its third-party fact-checking program,” Rowland told reporters on Tuesday.
Meta introduced third-party fact-checking in 2016 to ‘counter misinformation flooding platforms’ amid concerns false claims turbocharged by social media could manipulate political discourse.
“We have been advised by Meta Australia that there’s no immediate plan to end the third-party fact-checking program in Australia, including prior to a federal election, but I think that Australians will be questioning the amount of speech, the amount of civic content, for example, that Meta has indicated people will continue to see on their feeds,” Rowland continued.
“As a government … we make clear that the tech companies do have that social, economic and democratic responsibility, regardless of where companies operate, they must still abide by Australian laws and Meta has indicated to the government that they intend to do that.”
Fantastic.
Australian Associated Press (AAP) said its fact-checking agency AAP FactCheck’s contract with Meta was also not impacted by the U.S decision and its work would continue in 2025.
“Independent fact-checkers are a vital safeguard against the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation that threatens to undermine free democratic debate in Australia and aims to manipulate public opinion,” Chief Executive Lisa Davies said.
Yes, that’s right folks, the overpaid charlatans at AAP won’t be going away any time soon.
The tech giant said earlier this month that it was ditching its third-party fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram in favour of an X-style community notes system.
The announcement sparked mixed reactions across the world, with some claiming it as a win for free speech and others warning of ‘the consequences of viral falsehoods going unchecked’.
Meta Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg, put the decision to end the program last week down to “too many mistakes and too much censorship”.
But this reversal will only apply to the United States now.
In Australia, our system of governance has seemingly prioritised policies to enact as much censorship on the internet as possible, moving with laws and campaigns in recent years to strangle the reigns of free expression.
ORWELLIAN AUSTRALIA
Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised by this announcement. Unlike the United States, which appears on the surface to be returning to the democratic values that made Western society what it is, Australia is heading the other way.
With each passing day, the Australian government continues to push us towards more censorship and control.
Last month, as we all know, federal parliament passed legislation which will ‘ban under 16s from social media’, ‘preventing young people under 18 from accessing online pornography sites’.
Part of that commitment involves launching a trial of ‘age assurance technologies’ to determine the best way of enforcement, with a strong possibility of biometric identification underpinning the move.
This had been in the works since at least 2021, under the Liberal Party, once again proving that politics is a big game, and both sides are just wings of the same bird at the end of the day.
And, despite the ‘misinformation bill’ failing, there are many avenues of attack at play outside of that.
Last year, it was announced that tech giants would be forced to scan emails, online photo libraries, cloud storage accounts, and dating sites of Aussies for “illegal content”, or face fines of nearly $700,000 per day.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and WEF-attendee, Julie Inman Grant, announced the draconian move after rejecting two proposed industry codes as “inadequate”.
Now that tech companies have failed to meet the requirements of the Act, Inman Grant will exercise her powers under section D145(1)(a)(ii) of the of the Online Safety Act 2021 – which empowers her to “determine a standard” if a draft code “does not contain appropriate community safeguards”.
Meta is in the firm grip of the Australian government Leviathan.
Indeed, our country is hell-bent on ‘fighting disinformation’.
In 2022, we signed a new ‘Declaration for the Future of the Internet’, vowing to create “a single, global internet” system that enforces much greater levels of control.
All instances of Thoughtcrime and Wrongspeak will be punished under NWO Australia.
Just earlier this month, it was revealed there are new calls for a ‘national independent hate crime database’, as talking points say ‘far-right extremism’ is accelerating across Australia.
Among the issues raised were “toxic masculinity breeding right-wing group membership”, as well as “growing antisemitism” and “the need for a transparent hate crime database”.
Have you been saying something wrong online? Bad citizen!
You can even tell the smug arrogance of our so-called leaders by the tone in which they flout our draconian suppression powers, witnessed when Albanese told Musk to stay away from the 2025 Election.
‘We have interference laws’, smirked the Prime Minister when asked about Musk’s growing influence and his willingness to fund alternative voices across the world.
Meanwhile, the biggest purveyor of actual misinformation is the government itself:
They don’t actually care about ‘tackling lies’, only the lies that aren’t their own.
When it comes from their own mouths, that is a different story entirely.
And the laughable ‘fact-checkers’ will continue to get paid to call out Joe Blow on Facebook for a ‘wrong post’, rather than call the government out for repeated lies and deceptions.
If anything, the shift in the U.S. has shown us just how far Australia has fallen.
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Australia, formerly “The Lucky Country”, is now just a testbed for the dystopian New World Order…it’s luck is about to run out.